The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, July 20, 1887, Page 5

— tine in a, for lients, \ in its 0 oO S5e a at 4 LT A daughter and son of J. J. Holt, of St. Louis, are visiting their uncle Ed. Holt, north of the city. a emanamlmarmeaemiaesiieaaeaiatianal NOTICE TO TEACHERS :—Public Ex- ations for the benefit ot those per- - me See destriog to teach in Bates county, Rev. Browning, of the Christian ill be held on the 3d Saturday of each | church, preached in the court house month in the Ohio street school house, Butler, Mo., and on the 1st Saturday of each month in the West side school! house, Rich Hill, ‘Mo., the eramination com- cing cach day at 9 0’clock, A. M, ona W. W. GRAVES. County School Commissioner. yard Sunday evening to a large audi- ence. i sient scecins | Stock water is getting searce. | streams are drying up and wells are | giving out. The corn crop and the | i j W. iy. popular drug- gist at Shobe, was in the city the last of the week and favored the | Timys. He says the mines are run- ning with a greater capacity than ever before this time of year. LOCAL ITEMS The Holden water works will be completed in about a month. is being mentioned for governor There are few men more popular in this part of the state. The case of Alex Prine, charged with robbing Mart Owens’ house, in Grand River township, was continued to the 24 day of August, 1887, Prine setting up that an.important witness was absent and could not be had. Rev. Mr. Wright, state superin- tendent of the American Bible Union will conduct the services in the court yord Sunday evening. A. B. Hogan, conveted and fined $50 and cost, at Rich Hill -Saturday 1 for carrying concealed weapons will languish in our county jail until same Courtney & Fletcher shipped, on ast Thursday, two car loads of the finest Berkshire hogs that has ever ‘— vaid. been shipped from this depot. They a were purchased of Capt. Donohoe, Charley Eldridge, of Eldorado, | of Summit township, at $4.65 per Kansas, formerly of Butler, was in | hundred and one hundred and eight the city last week visiting friends | of them averaged 330 pounds. They and relatives. Charley is telegraph | were shipped to Kansas City and, operator and is doing well. we understand, commanded a sood price. Here is a case which is truly novel as 3 nature. The cashier of the Deputy U.S. Marshal Willis ar- Philadelphia Times has defaulted to} rested J. W. Badger and Lloyd the tune of ¥20,000 and has taken a | Fletcher on Wednesday. on a war- | pleasure trip to Canada. rant from the Federal court, charg- ing them with assisting « prisoner, Hardin Harris, to They were taken to Kansas Cityon Thurs- Mrs. T. . Harper and children will leave Sunday for Jefferson City ona visit to friends escape. and relatives. The Trars wishes her a pleasant time and a safe return. day. and gave bond in the of | $500 each, to 1 tae Apype ar oat term of court. | | { Let our railroad committee enter By actual ieusureiment the arte into correspondence with the officers | sian well at Clinton is throwing out | of the St. L., K. C. & C. railroad. Effective work must be done in this rection, and that at once. Let the railroad committee go to 75 gallons of water per iminute, or | enough water to supply a city of ten | Dr. Britts and others w ho have taken the pains te guage the flow. Can work at once, orlet the citizens meet you caleulate the benefit such a well and take action in regard to securing | of water prove to Butler? the St. Louis, K. C. & Colorado rail- | phen why not bore for gas and wa- road. one ter in this city. The costs are noth- 1. H. Bodkin, “ot New ‘Home, one ing compared to the benefit to be of the substantial stock men south | derived. of the river, gave us pleasant call We learn from a gentleman from while in the city Friday. He was on | the neighborhood of Johnstown, of his way home from Kansas City,| a serious accident which happened where he had been with two loads of | the first of last week,in which Tommy, hogs. 13-year-old son of G. W. Callahar, lost his right foot. He was running and the horses became frightened and ran away. catching his foot in a cog wheel, lacerating it so badly that it had to beamputated. Drs. Choat, MeAninch and Maxey, of Johustown, performed the operation. At last accounts the patient was do- ing well and resting easy. thousand inhabitants. so says would Mrs. Jas. K. Brugler and daught- er, Sallie, and youngest son, togeth~ er with her father and mother, who Were visiting her, left Thursday morning for the mountains of Colo- nado, where they will remain several weeks. a mower, flisses Lelia and Lola Edwards, Rosa MeCutcheon and Ella Meek, and Messrs. A. and E. Rosier. W. State Mine Inspector Marshall TL. i 1 and J. Winsett. Henry Meck and{| Wolfe came in from Lexington Sam Brown, of Butler party given at attended the | Thursday and stayed over Sunday A. J. Satterlee’s. last | with his family. Marshall says that Friday evening.—Adrian Advertiser. there are more eorl mines in opera- PERE GSS TERS tion in the state than he had any A woman has been arrested at Ola- } 0" | 2 : the, Kansas, on 2 charge of poison- ing her husband after having lived with him for forty years and bearing him thirteen children. From the testimony before the coroner's jury there seems to be no doubt about her guilt. idea of and it will take hard work to inspect all the mines in time to make his report. He is getting and likes the work. along nicely The appointed Mr. Wolfe to this portant office. Tuesd; ys election v one sid The Tri-county Medical Associa- i tion, composed of the counties of Bates, Cass and Vernon, met at Ne- vada on the 7th. with a good attend- ance, and a very interesting and in- vote of 33 savor of the water proposition, and only 22 affair, since in a total x there were 335 in works against it. There was one ballot on which neither “yes” . A ia o” was} structive meeting was reported. Tea t thi — = oa : «i seratehed, and this. of course, wa The meeting adjourned to meet in ede eee thrown out. The voters of theiown Butler the first Thursday in October, can bui be congratulated on such when a two days session will be had. | ; UnaAn sentiment concerning an improvement fraught with more benefits te the town than all others combined.—Lamar Missourian. imity of The resources of Bates county should be properly and fully showed up at the National Exposition to be held ia Kansas City from Sept. Lith to Nov. Ist. that the Matter is properly attended to we tallupon our horticultural soci ty to look aftér the sane with their us- wal zeal} R. F. Butler was out to his turm last week, and hearing of a madst: in the possession of Thomas Mar went and got and took it to Carthage To see ; dog. supposed to be mad. When Sam’! Eakwaan, living in the uerth- applied it stuck fast for two hours West part bf the county, was arraign- | the first time and one hour the sec- ed befor: sg Newsom, in this city} ond time. The stone isan Saturday. or charge of eartying | It was bro from Kentu Concealed) \ x tothe! has been in the Routt family absences got Prosecuting Attorney | ninety years. It has proven ¢ Jackson, dhe case was continued until i suceess in ma ay cases. —Carthace the 28¢), ast ‘ Patriot | ped from the Butler depot last week, | Some wonderful stories of the great | | his own way, as far as the corn crop | very near the mouth of the Kaw vantage of the occasion and visited governor raade no inistake when he | im- | where there was a lady bitten by a, Parties desiring to drink Monegaw ; Jobn T. Smith, with his family, j water can secure it of Hurt and | went to Montana last week to spend Phelps, fresh from the spring once a | the heated term. The week. DORN X PIERCE--BARBERS. Shop on North Side Square. We give special attention to Ladies and Children’s hair cutting. We keep the best of Barbers, also grind seis. Ssors and razors y will proba- | | bly be il Septe Flex | | bly be gone until September. When | | John returns we may expect to hear | Ten car loads of hogs were ship- When Baby was sick, we wave her Castoria, When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria, When she became Miss, she clang to Castoria, When she b: itdren, = {northwest and of the bear and deer | —e she gave them Cestona, seven by Short, Williams, Hensley & ; ' 4 he killed Co. and three by Courtney & Fletch- er. Everything first- All work guaranteed. us 8 call. i.e class Oscar Reeder, county treasurer, since he assumed office and during the first three months of his term, has collected over $200 of back tax- es belonging the city of Rich Hill. This is the best service our city has had in that line of duty since it was incorporated, and this was done, too, long after the cream of the collec- tions on the back tax list had been secured. Our city appreciates such service.—Rich Hill Review. Give R. H. Browning, of Adrian, one of the live wide-awake boys of north Bates called the last of the week. He said he had recently traveled over a number of counties in north Mis- souri and reported a good prospect for corn in them all. Farmers have begun to complain of the dry weather. They say that never was a better prospect for corn in the county, but it requires another rain to make it, and this excessive hot and dry weather is fast drying up the corn. We await in fear and trembling the result of the next few days BADGLEY BROS.., Can always be found on the South Side of the Squate with a complete stock of Staple and Fancy Groceries, QUEENSWARE, FLOUR, BACON, LARD A. J. Smith, Deer Creek tp: Chinch bugs doing some damage tv crop; late rains doing good. A. B. Wil kins, Howard tp: Chinch bugs very bad and without plenty of rain will take corn crop. H. Miller, Walnut tp: Chinch bugs have damaged wheat and oats to a considerable ex- tent. H. O. Haynes, Hudson tp: Ow- ing to drouth of 86 and spring of ‘87, many acres of timothy were planted to corn.—Correspondents to State Board of Agriculture. And everything kept in a FIRST-CLASS Grocery Store. Call and get Prices betore buying and live cheap. Be sure and call at the right house. BADGLEY BROS. Il am prepared to buy and pay the highest market price in P>CASHS< ! woo! Joseph Kimble, of Spruce, drop- ped in on us Monday and had the figures on his paper changed to read ‘88. He said that the chinch bugs had not done the fair thing with him for instead of being satisfied with a fine patch of oats they had entered his corn. But he said if it will just rain in a week the farmer can have A. B. Hogan, while on a drunk Tuesday evening, made an attack on Marshal Logan with « large dirk or bowie knife, while the latter was in the discharge of his duty. is concerned. A great cattle drive is coming north from Texas. ~The prairies are full of them.” The various sections head- ing this way number over 60,000 head. The presumption is that the bulk of them will be marketed in Kansas City. Let them come. and thousands more. ment of Hogan would have been a hard man to han- dle, no doubt, had aot one or two others come to the marshal’s assist ance—Mr. Logan not desiring to shed Vlood as Jong as it could be avoided. Hogan was bound over in The center of the | the sum of $200, and in the absence market the world hovers i of biuil, was committed to jail at Butler yesterday.—Rich Hill Review. tor all kinds ot fer ffered, wool sacks and wool twine furnished. LEWIS HOFFMAN ', BUTLER, MO. I. 8. Carrithers, proprietor of the William Ray, a young man about \incrican Clovhing House, who has been spending the past month in New York and Philadelphia pur- chasing his fall stock of goods, is home again. While east he took ad- 25 years of age. died at his broth the northwest part of town, on last Wednesday, of malaria fever. Altona. He had been siek for some time but was feeling better and came to Butler on the 4th when he was taken worse. ars, Pn Pe R: . 1 es ae ee NORTH MAIN STRE! His home was near his home at Shelbyville, Ky.. spend- ing three or four days with his pa- rents. The remains were ta- ken to his home in the northeast part of the county for burial on Thursday. From what we can learn he was an exemplary young man, and his sudden taking off is to be re- greted. At Nelson, Nebraska, the 17th. a miuuw. Coonrad, was taken from jail and hung by a mob for the murder of Henry Sallen. Sallen had brought a load of hogs to town and sold thein for $50. As he was driving home Coonrad who knew he had the money jusked 2 ride and at a lonely place in the road shot his victim and robbed the body. He was arrested while his wife was in the act of washing the blood from his shirt. BUY YOUR Horse Thief Capture1 Henry McFarland was in the city this morning in search of a stolen stallion which was taken from his farm near Lowry City,St. Clair coun- ty. Tuesday night last. McFarland and his son started at once in search of theif supposed to have been Dick Smith, a lad about 18 years old; from Carbon Center the son went to But- ler the father coming to Rich Hill. This mornig the gentleman receive eda telegram that the thief and horse had been overhauled at Butler. The stolen animal was a “Gold Dust” stallion and valued at $250. A re- ward of $100 was offered by St. Clair county and $50 by McFarland for the capture of the thief —Rich Hill Herald. Fell With His Pony. Last night sbout nine o'clock an accident befell Harry Allen. aged about 12 years, whieh was indeed a BOOTS AND SHOES GENTS FURNISHING GOODS. Where you can get them asrepresented. A large stock to select from. Good quality, low prices, 2 call will convince vou of the fact Chas. Carlton, of Deepwater town- ship. was adjudged insane by the | county court Thursday last and on | Friday inorning was seut to the asy- }lum. He has a wife and two chil- whieh he leaves behind. Of }late he has shown a disposition to dren become very troublesome and on 1 several ax to He no estate and will be a charge used break in the doors of his house. oceasions ar on the county during his confine | £ j ment. RESPEC'TEULLY. J, M. McKIBBEN. A very rapid case of justice was jmeted out to John Goss, on last | Friday, for forgery. Aspecial grand j jury was empaneled. an indictment ‘found, he plead guilty and was sen- lienced to the penitentiary by his |honor, Judge D. A. DeArmond, fora term of two years, all in less than an hour's time. John Goss was brought up from Rich Hill fer forging a note on H. Loeb, and presenting it to the | Rich Hill bank for collection. narrow escape from being seriously, if not fatally injured. The boy had been out to his grandfather's, at New Home, to spend the day, and had ridden his pony, which is a Texas, considerable throughout the dey from which the animal was nearly fagged out. | About 7 o'clock Harry started home, reaching the city about 9 o'clock, and while passing A. E. Beaty’s resi- dence the animal fell throwing Har- ry bencath. Mr. Beaty ran out and assisted the boy from under the po- PHARIS & SON, Respecttully informs the public that they are still in the field with a {ull The William Jewell College, estab- | lished in 1850, has just completed | one of the most successful years of ‘its history. There were 173 students in attendance from ten different states | mE : ee aie Se . jny whieh was lying squarely upon i and terntories. This college is | \* = alee as ea H 5 3 .j him. Harry was unconscious from under the patronage of the Missouri | : : a e R | B eat 1m ae } | te eoncusion, having Hit upon bis | japtist. General Association. bu E : S| pasts See ay ; é 1} lin this condition Which us the lowest eu the while a Baptist institution. young } a z : i smalles busi ciples. We A , ; ent gs this morning.) 9 -*™al men from all other denomin is ! 5 it was thought he w are cordially weleomed and made to | aaa { j Die : j2 Neo now at home The object of ¢ al- } : } 9 ‘ : sit to res | s to afford « first-class literary | ‘ . ry | He 5 5 j | to young | scientife education oer ; “ Hill Herald. them neh ur gener u nn Net Cal » Famous TEBO FLOUR. PHARIS & £O iM the and | nother ead. ina